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TEMPERANCE NOTES

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TEMPERANCE NOTES
/, Compiled by Miss Julia Arnes, Of tlse w. C. T.
u, Chicago!
NINE out Of every ten of the prohibition
voters in this country are under forty years
Of q o. q
LOCAL option, which was one of the is
sues of the late election in Froriila, was
carried by large majority.
| Now THAT the returns OF the Int cleo
ton are all in, it is seen that tho Prohibi-
ton party rolled up over 5000 votes.
| A PROHIBITION club was recently ORGAN
ICED at Bates Theological Seminary,
Maine, and already numbers over one third
of the students.
A DOCUMENT has been presented to the
King Of Sweden containing 136, 6A sigma
lures to petition for the suppression Of
obscene literature.
LOCAL option has driven the saloons out
Of nearly thirty counties Of Arkansas, and
the three mile law has been effective in
Kidding many of the larger cities and towns
of these pitfalls.
A BILL asking that scientific Temperance
be taught in all the schools Of Georgia was
presented to the Legislature, nov in ses-
zion Mt Atlanta, by Mrs. j. E. Sibley, Pres
ident of the w. @. T. U. Of that Skate.
The sangerfest of Northwestern Sanger
bund. which was 10 have been held in Du-
buque, Iowa. has decided to meet in Free
port, ILL.,, lecause of the prohibitory law Of
Iowa. Still prohibition does not pro-
hibit."
SCIENTIFIC temperance is being taught
in all public schools or Chicago. The Su-
perintendent of Schools, when asked why
the study was introduced. answered: "lt
was to meet demand, and to keep abreast
of the time.
ONLY 100000 out of the zoo, coo popnla-
ton of Chicago are native born Americans.
As all foreigners, almost without excap-
ton, believe in drinking at least beer or
wine, the great need and difficulty in the
way of temperance work in that city is
readily seen.
The President Of the White Cross League
of Minneapolis, MIMI, is prominent
young lawyer, who is fearless in his advo-
cacy of the principles Of purity. The
League, which numbers nearly four humid
red young men, have agreed to boycott all
the EAST men" of the city.
THE residents Of Indianapolis, Ind, are
rejoicing in the quiet which reigns in their
city on the Sabbath day. The Mayor and
Police Superintendent have decided that
the laws regarding the closing Of saloons
on Sunday must be enforced, and enforced.
they are. The Liquor League, after having
to close their saloons, now insist that drug
I stores and cigar 81 ops be closed. This is
| done, and Indianapolis is now model city.
70. at least one day in the week.
Inter- Collegiate Prohibition Convention,
to be held in Cleveland, January 4, 1881.
TIE call is to the Prohibition clubs OF the
. various American collie ges, and Includes
\ press Mt members of the colleges and pro-
I 1essional schools, and graduates therefrom
within t,e years. It is based upon the de-
mant for political reform, the increased
pre- eminence of the liquor question, and
the efficacy of separate party action.
EVERY male inhabitant Of France, who
is up 10 the required physical standard is
required to serve in the amy. To escape
doing this it il very common for the peas
ants to bind tobacco-leaf under the arm
pit, and after wearing it q few days they
will be seized with violent symptoms Of
narcotic poisoning. They are then taken
to hospital, and after their recovery the
physician is obliged to give them certii-
cate, g aing them to be d sabled for SER
vice in the army. Does not this show
whether or not tooacco is poison2
MRS. PRESIDENT Polk, whose death at
Nashville, Tenn, is just announced, sent a
message Of goodwill to the National w.
9. L. w., at its recent convention in Min
neapolis, to which Miss Willard responded.
In this connection the fact is noteworthy
that ISIS Willard was The means Of placing
portrait of Mrs. Polk ut re White House;
al,o she headed the enterprise of placing
Mrs. Hayes portrait there, and Mrs. Hayes
herself secured the one Of Martha Wash
ineton, which was the first of the three.
Temperance women have thus already
moved on the White House, @sthet;cahy at
least.
BY order of the national convention, at
its late session in Minneapolis, ON add
dress has been sent from headquarters to
all the labor org anizations in the United
States, approving the temperance action
taken by the Labor Union, and showing the
relations between temperance and tho labor
question. The aim is that this address
shall be sent by all loc!l w @. r. Unions
to all local labor or .anizatiens in tho conn.,
thy, with the request that its propositions
be discussed, SO thnt the workingmen may
r ceiye an ARREST OF thought" on the tenn
perance que ton. 1t has been sent W Mr..
Powd,rly and other officers of tho labor
organization.
The Proper Metium.
"My wife wants my picture for Christ
ma nresant paia Smith tho other Cnv